Curriculum Vitae

From biomedical electromagnetics research to clinical implementation

Prof.dr.ir. Margarethus M. (Maarten) Paulides is Full Professor of Biomedical Electromagnetics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Scientific Director of the Center for Care and Cure Technology Eindhoven (C3Te), chair of the EM4Care+Cure laboratory and honorary Professor at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute.

For more than two decades he has brought medical technology from concept to the clinic: from the design of the HYPERcollar and HYPERcollar3D head and neck hyperthermia applicators and their clinical introduction at Erasmus MC, to patient-specific treatment planning, MR-guided hyperthermia and, more recently, neuromodulation and remote patient management. He co-founded the medtech company Sensius and advises medtech companies on technological and clinical R&D roadmaps.

Current Positions

2021 – presentFull Professor of Biomedical Electromagnetics
Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
2018 – presentScientific Director, Center for Care and Cure Technology Eindhoven (C3Te)
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, TU/e – stimulating cross-disciplinary medtech research and valorisation
2023 – presentSteering Group Member, Taskforce Implementation of e/MTIC
Formerly CICL/e (Center for Impact in Clinical Care Eindhoven): founding lead (kwartiermaker) on behalf of TU/e, later board member
2019 – presentChair, EM4Care+Cure laboratory
Electromagnetics for Care & Cure, TU/e
2021 – presentHonorary Professor
Hyperthermia Unit, Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam
2015 – presentCo-founder and technical lead, Sensius
Medtech company developing planning-guided head and neck hyperthermia systems
2022 – presentOwner, Paulides MedTech Consultancy (PMTC)
Advising companies on technological and clinical R&D roadmaps
2018 – presentDirector, MSc track Care & Cure
Department of Electrical Engineering, TU/e
2019 – presentExecutive Board Member, Thermotherapy Netherlands (TTNL)

Research to Implementation

Selected milestones in which research results were translated into clinical practice, companies or new care models.

HYPERcollar → HYPERcollar3D

Designed the first clinical applicator for deep hyperthermia in the head and neck (PhD, 2007), demonstrated clinical feasibility at Erasmus MC, and introduced its redesign, the HYPERcollar3D, into clinical routine (2015). Outcome data on re-irradiation with hyperthermia were published in 2021.

Treatment planning in the clinic

Contributed to implementing hyperthermia treatment planning in routine clinical care in Rotterdam and to VEDO, a software tool for adaptive, planning-guided phased-array hyperthermia in the head and neck (2013).

Clinical studies

Main applicant of TRIHAN, on the predictive value of treatment planning for outcome of thermoradiotherapy in head and neck cancer, and co-applicant of TANCA-I, a phase I trial of thermotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06761937).

Sensius

Co-founded Sensius (2015) to bring planning-guided head and neck hyperthermia to the market, including European projects such as the Eurostars project SENS-THERM.

Regional medtech ecosystem

Founding lead (kwartiermaker) of CICL/e on behalf of TU/e, later board member, and now steering group member of its successor, the Taskforce Implementation of e/MTIC, with Catharina Hospital, Máxima MC and Kempenhaeghe. Lessons from its remote patient management pilots are described on the Implementation & Innovation page.

Guidelines & safety

Member of the Dutch Health Council EMF Committee and of the ICNIRP Scientific Expert Group (2017–2021), contributing to new high-frequency EMF exposure guidelines with the WHO.

Career

2021 – presentFull Professor of Biomedical Electromagnetics, TU/e
2018 – 2021Associate Professor in Biomedical Electromagnetics, TU/e; Honorary Associate Professor, Erasmus MC
2016 – 2018Leader Research Pillar Biology Image Guided Radiotherapy, Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC
2016Visiting Researcher, MRI Laboratory, GE Global Research, Niskayuna NY, USA
2008 – 2018Research Scientist, Assistant and Associate Professor, Hyperthermia Unit, Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute
2008 – 2009Visiting Research Scholar, Hyperthermia Physics Division, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA
2003 – 2007PhD candidate, Erasmus MC – Daniel den Hoed; guest researcher at TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory

Education

2007PhD (cum laude, highest honor in the NLs), Health and Medical Physics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Thesis: Development of a Clinical Head and Neck Hyperthermia Applicator
2002MSc Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology

Selected Research Funding

Together with academic, clinical and industrial partners, he has contributed to a collaborative research portfolio of more than €60M, funded by the European Commission, NWO, the Dutch Cancer Society and industry. Selected projects:

2025ETAIN – Horizon Europe, exposure to electromagnetic fields and planetary health. TU/e PI.
2023SENS-THERM – EUREKA Eurostars, sensory-guided thermal therapy. TU/e PI and work package leader.
2022CARES – NWO Perspectief, personalised MR-guided thermochemotherapy for breast-conserving surgery. TU/e PI and work package leader.
2022RADIATHE – Dutch Cancer Society PPS, real-time absolute dose control in anti-cancer thermotherapy. Co-PI.
2022DBI2 – NWO Gravitation, Dutch Brain Interface Initiative. Promotor of one PhD.
2020HYPERBOOST – Marie Skłodowska-Curie network. Supervisor of one early-stage researcher.
2019INTENSE – NWO Cross-over, innovative neurotechnology for society. Promotor of one PhD.
2019Learn-2-Act – NWO / Dutch Cancer Society, learning-based control in MR-guided hyperthermia. Co-PI.
2018Multi-coil MR-guided hyperthermia – Dutch Cancer Society, head and neck cancer. PI.
2018COST Action CA17115 MyWAVE – European network for electromagnetic hyperthermia technologies. Work group leader and Management Committee member.
2016Control2Act – STW / Dutch Cancer Society, personalised MR-guided hyperthermia control. Erasmus MC PI.
2011NWO/STW Veni, on-line calibration of hyperthermia treatment planning. PI.

Honours

2025Yatvin Memorial Keynote Lecture, 13th IAHOM, Chennai, India
2023Best physics paper of 2022, International Journal of Hyperthermia (co-author)
2016Best physics paper of 2015, International Journal of Hyperthermia (last author); EUR Fellowship, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2011Roberts Prize for the best paper of 2010 in Physics in Medicine and Biology (first author)
2010NWO/STW Veni grant
2008Dutch Cancer Society Fellowship (Duke University Medical Center); Editor's Award for best physics paper of 2007, International Journal of Hyperthermia
2004 – 2008ESHO Student Award (2006), Prof. Kim Award (2007) and Young Investigator Travel Awards at ICHO (2004, 2008)

Professional Service

2026 – presentDutch representative, Commission K, International Union of Radio Science (URSI); Editorial Board, Physics in Medicine and Biology
2022 – presentInternational Journal of Hyperthermia: Section Editor Engineering/Physics (2022–2025), Editorial Board (2025 – present)
2025Evaluation Committee, NWO NXTGEN Hightech Growth Fund call
2022 – 2025PPS Scientific Board, Dutch Cancer Society
2021 – presentTopical Advisory Board, Cancers (section interventions)
2017 – 2021Dutch Health Council, permanent EMF Committee; ICNIRP Scientific Expert Group
2018 – 2020Board Member, Strategic Area Health, TU/e
2014 – 2018Scientific leader, Netherlands Antenna Research Framework (NARF)
2008 – 2010Leader, ESHO working group on quality assurance guidelines for hyperthermia treatment planning
OngoingSenior Member IEEE; programme and scientific committees of ICHO (2012, 2016); grant reviewer for the European Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation and Dutch Cancer Society

Supervision & Teaching

(Co-)promotor of eleven completed PhD and EngD theses at TU/e, Erasmus University Rotterdam and LMU Munich, with nine more in progress. Supervisor of more than 55 BSc and MSc projects since 2004, and opponent in PhD defences at ETH Zurich, Ghent University, Chalmers, Utrecht University, Erasmus University and TU/e.

Lecturer of Technology in Care & Cure (MSc Electrical Engineering, TU/e) and of earlier courses on electromagnetics in medicine, which received the 2010 award for best BSc course of the TU/e Electrical Engineering department. Regular lecturer at the European School of Antennas and ESHO schools.